Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 16:47:12 -0500 From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 110 questions
----- Original Message ----- From: "Zoltan Gyorgypal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: [LIB] Libretto 110 questions > (1) What is better for the Libretto in terms of machine/battery life span > when it is not used and shut down (e. g. overnight): if I leave the AC > connected (two LEDS lighting), or if I isolate it from all current (no LED > lights)? Leave it on AC so the Li-ion battery get fully charged all the time. If you don't, the battery will lose its charge in a week. A full recharge eats one of its limited recharge cycles (500 to 1000). > > (2) There are 2-3 pinkish-colored vertical pixel columns on the left edge of > the screen. Is this a permanent fault of the screen (the machine is 4 years > old), or something can be done with it? I've one vertical columns changing color if I press on it. The LCD connector at the edge might have worn out. I don't think it worth the risk to open up the LCD screen to fix it. > > (3) The machine _sometimes_ locks up when coming back from hibernation. The > screen remains black with the cursor blinking in the left upper quarter of > the screen. The only way to come out of this is to push the reset button. > This only happens sometimes, with no obvious reason. Is there any experience > with this? (I realize from recent posts that suspend/hibernate is a > "less-than-obvious" feature of the Librettos.) This happens to me most of the time when restore from hibernation in Win98. I since moved to Win2k and use standby all the time. And it never fails on me. > > (4) My machine has BIOS 7.30, and I downloaded the 8.10 version. Is it > worthwhile to replace it? Anything particular to watch out when doing a BIOS > update? Can I save/restore the previous one in case something fails? Can it > be done safely on a fully installed machine, or better on a virgin one? You will need a 720k floppy disk and boot from floppy to do the BIOS upgrade. You can't upgrade from hard disk. And if you're not intended to install Win2000, you don't really need the new BIOS. Everytime you upgrade any BIOS, you run the risk of failure and trash the whole computer useless. Of course the risk is very small but it is still possible. It doesn't matter it's a new or fully loaded one. > > (5) Is there an Email address where Toshiba service engineers would answer > tech questions? (Guarantee is over.) This list the only email address you need. I don't think the support engineers in Toshiba even know what Libretto is any more. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
